On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 08:03, Gerard Meijssen
<gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Macro languages are nicely defined. They are languages
that used to be
recognised at one time as a single language but are found to be a
combination of multiple languages. Kicking the idea of macro-languages is
daft; it is not only a result of the work of SIL it is more the consequence
of the work of the maintainers of the iso-639-1 and the iso-639-3.
If you've read definition at SIL [1], you would know that it is just
the first paragraph of the definition.
[1]
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/scope.asp#M